A Hundred Days of Carnage, Twenty-Five Years of Rebirth

Speaking tour in the US coordinated to the book’s release and anniversary of genocide. National Publicity campaign: media attention and speaking tour timed to 25th anniversary of the Rwanda genocide Feature in Plough Quarterly magazine, circulation 19,000. Promotions on Plough social and email channels, combined reach 100,000 Significant social media campaign Advance reader copies mailing

Rwandan genocide survivor Denise Uwimana recounts in painful detail the bloody tragedy of her country.... She moves forward to explain how forgiveness has become crucial in her life and the lives of others. Gut-wrenching but undeniably compelling, this is a powerful look at Rwanda, then and now.--Booklist

In this poignant memoir, Uwimana describes her extraordinary experience of survival during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.... The bulk of the book recounts her efforts to rebuild her life, to learn to forgive her enemies, and to help other women struggling to reconcile in the aftermath. Readers interested in faith-based perspectives will be particularly drawn to this tale of survival and redemption.--Publishers Weekly

This moving memoir adds a vivid new piece to the Rwandan mosaic. It is a deeply human story of resilience and rebirth that parallels the story of a nation. More than an account of what happened in Rwanda, it is about the unexpected strength that can lie deep within the human spirit.--stephen Kinzer, author of A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It

Denise Uwimana speaks for our beautiful country, Rwanda, “land of a thousand hills.” Her story details a people’s struggle for healing and forgiveness in the wake of unimaginable horror. From Red Earth should be read by all people of faith to remind us that hope is stronger than hate.--Eric Irivuzumugabe, Author of My Father, Maker of the Trees

This is a hard book to read, but people of faith must read it, especially to learn about the culpability of Christians in the genocide. Some might call From Red Earth inspiring, and it is. But...I also found it humbling.--Elizabeth Felicetti, Christian Century

A Hundred Days of Carnage, Twenty-Five Years of Rebirth In the space of a hundred days, a million Tutsi in Rwanda were slaughtered by their Hutu neighbors. At the height of the genocide, as men with bloody machetes ransacked her home, Denise Uwimana gave birth to her third son. With the unlikely help of Hutu Good Samaritans, she and her children survived. Her husband and other family members were not as lucky. If this were only a memoir of those chilling days and the long, hard road to personal healing and freedom from her past, it would be remarkable enough. But Uwimana didn’t stop there. Leaving a secure job in business, she devoted the rest of her life to restoring her country by empowering other genocide widows to band together, tell their stories, find healing, and rebuild their lives. The stories she has uncovered through her work and recounted here illustrate the complex and unfinished work of truth-telling, recovery, and reconciliation that may be Rwanda’s lasting legacy. Rising above their nation’s past, Rwanda’s genocide survivors are teaching the world the secret to healing the wound of war and ethnic conflict. Includes 16 pages of color photographs.